what is trinidads amatuer record

[jack_the_rippuh]

If he did know the technique that puts quite a whole in your theory.

Too bad the word you're looking for is spelled h-o-l-e.

[Del Coqui]

The ref nor the federation check fighters wraps in the amateur fights in PR. So, it would make more sense for his father to put a double cinderblock (hope I got the name right) in amateur boxers than PROs. Tito wasn't a knock out artist as an amateur, this proves the wraps theory is completely senseless.

[jack_the_rippuh]

The ref nor the federation check fighters wraps in the amateur fights in PR. So, it would make more sense for his father to put a double cinderblock (hope I got the name right) in amateur boxers than PROs. Tito wasn't a knock out artist as an amateur, this proves the wraps theory is completely senseless.

The pr behind your name proves your argument is completely biased.

[Del Coqui]

The pr behind your name proves your argument is completely biased.

Being from PR and around amateur boxing gives me an idea of what I'm talking about. PR's a small island and Tito has been a star since his amateur days, if there's a bias argument here has to be yours, especially when you think an illegal hand wrap will 1) go unnoticed, 2)help you knock a guy out, that's ridiculous.

[leow]

all this trinidad wrap thing is bs... is there any actual proof? other then
"i got a friend in pr who heard tito's dad at a bar saying....."

[tito yuca]

The pr behind your name proves your argument is completely biased.

I love it how you didn't address ONE point that he made. They were all excellent, and apply in any case that a fighter would get accused of using such handwraps.

[BrooklynBomber]

Mother of G-d, when they will get it...............................
Jack, Jack.........................

[$ LegenD $]

this is getting old.....someone show me an amateur with a high ko %....with headgear i doubt anyone would go knocking fools out in the amateur....they would turn pro right away....

[borikua]

Jeff Mayweather

Basically, for the most part, the first thing I do is make a pad to protect the knuckles, because that is where most of the impact is going to come from. When you hit another fighter, the knuckles is where the force is going to come from. So, I make a large pad for my fighters with gauze and after that I use a total of five gauze, two for the wrap and one for the padding which is very important to protect the fighter’s hands and then I use a large amount of tape that I wrap the boxer’s hands with the tape after the wrap is done, you know, make sure that their hands feel secure, not too tight and then I make strips of tape, not to build a cast, that’s probably what they are talking about in reference to Tito Trinidad because each trainer has a specific amount of tape that they like to use.

But actually, I don’t feel that wrapping a hand can dictate the impact of a punch. The fighter can punch or the fighter can’t punch. All the tape does is protect the fighter’s hands, it doesn’t make the fighter a better puncher, and in that sense I don’t feel...only thing you can do is if you put metal or if you do something like what Panama Lewis did, with the padding of the gloves, that’s something totally different.

But we are talking about when you wrap a guy’s hand the commission should be there to mandate the amount of tape you are going to wrap around the hand. The tape is there basically to protect the fighter’s hands. Once you use the gauze and once you start taping, there is no longer any gauze.

BRC: Does each camp get same exact amount of gauze and tape?

JM: That, in that sense is not really true because each trainer, while they have a standard by which you are only allowed to use so much gauze, each trainer has his own amount of gauze that he brings in and of course some can get away with using more, some can get away with using less. Some fighters like using even less, and the trainer himself has to bring the gauze, not necessarily the comissioner or the state. In that sense u have a little independence to use it freely, but the one thing that is true in every state is that there is an appointed representative from the commission of that state, to watch, to watch as the hands are being wrapped.

BRC: In your experience, both as a fighter and now as a trainer, your years in boxing, have you ever felt that you could not trust the person appointed by the commission to observe the wrapping of the opponent’s hands? Have you ever felt uncomfortable in any sense with that?

JM: In my own experience, no. I feel that the only thing you can really do is if you take the padding out of the gloves, or you could use excessive amounts of tape, but there are rules and regulations that estipulate that you can only use one roll of tape. Of course, some of the Commission’s people are a bit more lenient because it is for the protection of the fighter, but they know when...I mean, a lot of the Commission’s people are ex-fighters, they might be a little bit lenient but they won’t allow anyone to go berzerk with the amount of tape that they are using. And plus, you can’t even really protect the knuckles, only way you can protect the knuckles is with padding, you can’t tape the knuckles.


BRC: Based on what you have explained to me, is it a fair statement to say that a bit more gauze, a bit less gauze, it’s not going to affect the impact of the punch?

JM: That’s pretty much right. The gauze has nothing to do with it, like I said the gauze is basically there to protect the fighters. Some fighters don’t like too much gauze, they like to feel they can almost feel their hands when they hit a person. Some fighters are like that, they don’t care about gauze. Gauze is to protect the hands, the only thing that changes anything is the amount of tape that you use, that may help the impact a little bit but at the same time, you are only protecting the fighters hands, it doesn’t make you a better puncher.

BRC: If one of your fighters got knocked out badly and came to you and said, wow! I had never been hit like that before, that guy punches funny. Would your immediate response be that the oppponent’s gloves were loaded?

JM: No, I would probably say you have never been in there with a guy that punches that hard. One thing is that Felix Trinidad is a proven puncher, I mean he has proven that througout his whole entire career, as a welterweight, at 154...Maybe these guys have never been in with a guy that punches like Trinidad on a consistent basis, and that is my honest feeling. I don’t think the hands wrap would have made any difference in the Hopkins fight, Hopkins had his number that night. I think Trinidad is a devastating puncher no matter what kind of wrap he’s got on.


BRC: I have one last question for you… You were a fighter, you are now a trainer, you come from a family of good fighters...Do you feel that it’s fair to write an article questioning a guy’s integrity, the accomplishments of his career, questioning the commissions that he has fought under based on the comments of three guys that got knocked out by this one person?

JM: If those guys would have won, you would have no excuses. Excuses come from losers. I don’t care how you win, even if you don’t win and you win, as is the case sometimes, you hear no complaints. So when a guy loses he has to find excuses, you know, like how did this guy beat me, or how did this guy devastated me, or whatever the case might be. Trinidad had no excuses, he just lost to Bernard and he took it like a man. Like I said, losers have excuses, winners don’t.

[Undefeated]

Lol.. Illegal hand wraping technique... That's funny.